Thoughts

Finding Nemo

Can’t seem to make up my mind about what to post. hahah I ditched two drafts already; one topic was too rambly and the other too serious. I also wanted to make a blog post yesterday but was feeling rather under the weather with vaguely flu-like symptoms and so ended up not making any post.

1. A warm little story at the core: baby clownfish Nemo is captured by a diver and ends up in an aquarium at a dentist’s office; daddy clownfish Marlin goes on a quest with an unlikely friend in the amnesiac regal tang, Dory, to find Nemo.
(Click thumbnails to see bigger.)Marlin and Dory.

2. It has maybe the most beautiful visuals of any 3D-animated film thus far. (Oh, I’m so biased ) I guess the fact that the setting is the big blue sea helps. The Great Barrier Reef is a gorgeous place in real life, after all. Pixar rendered it magnificently.

*in surfer-dude twang* “First you were all like ‘whoa’, and we were like ‘whoa’, and you were like ‘whoaaa…'”
(This scene just has to be watched to be appreciated. Here, from about 0:55-0:59.)

“Duuude!”

“Sweeeeeet.”
“Totallyyy.”

“Mine. Mine. Mine.”

“My bubbles.”

“Sharkbait! Hoo ha ha!”

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I took way too many screencaps, so let’s not waste them.

Marlin takes Nemo to school.

Mr. Ray the schoolteacher gives a lesson. (Ramble: Look at the coloursssssss! ♥)

Ooh, pretty light… and a dangerous one too. The expressions on Dory and Marlin’s faces are so well done.

Squirt: That was SO cool! Hey, dad, did you see that? Did you see me? Did you see what I did?
Crush: You so totally rock, Squirt! So gimme some fin.
[They slap fins]
Crush: Noggin’.
[bump heads]
Crush, Squirt: Duuuude!

Storytime!

Dory doesn’t want Marlin to leave: “Please don’t go away. Please? No one’s ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave… if you leave… I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two… forty-two… I remember it, I do. It’s there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I… and I’m home. Please… I don’t want that to go away. I don’t want to forget.”
If Pixar can make toys, fish and robots such touching characters, they can do anything. Totally~

I loved how this bit was staged. 8D

An exchange student from the EAC! “Sweeeeet.” “Totallyyy.”

“I love you, Dad.”
*sniffs*

Sometimes I think part of the reason why Pixar’s films reach across the board and feel so warm and reach and heartfelt is because their directors are mostly people with families of their own.